Advantage Quote by Steven Pinker

The brain was designed by evolution, so each part of it is optimized for what it does, and it's incredibly, incredibly complex.

— Paul Allen

“Because we are capable of conscious, memory-based learning, we can evolve further and faster than any other species, changing not just across generations but…

— Ray Dalio

In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.

— Arthur Koestler

“To express this increasingly complex subject as succinctly as possible, the ancestors of our species developed the brain power to connect with other minds…

— Edward O. Wilson

The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most "things" now done by our…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The brain is the great factory of thought. To it are directed all the forces of nature, forces which, for thousands of years, have…

— Leonardo Bianchi

“our primate ancestors was the development of a larger cerebral cortex as well as the development of increased volume of gray-matter tissue in certain…

— Ray Kurzweil

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The brain is much more flexible and adaptable than previously thought. It can evolve and creatively work around limitations and nullify them.”

— James Morcan

Anyone who understands evolution knows that it doesn't necessarily lead from simpler to more complex life-forms. Rather, it leads to life-forms better suited to…

— J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

The beauty of evolution is that it does provide an explanation of how you can get complexity out of simplicity. It does it by…

— Richard Dawkins

Evolution is a very, very important idea. It is the explanation for all of life - a stunningly simple, yet powerful explanation. If you…

— Richard Dawkins